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Mumblety-peg (also known as mumbley-peg, mumblepeg, mumble-the-peg, mumbledepeg or mumble-de-peg) is an old outdoor game played by children using _____?_____
Mumblety-peg (also known as mumbley-peg, mumblepeg, mumble-the-peg, mumbledepeg or mumble-de-peg) is an old outdoor game played by children using pocketknives. The term "Mumblety-peg" came from the practice of putting a peg of about 2 or 3 inches into the ground. The loser of the game had to take it out with his teeth. Mumbletypeg was very popular as a schoolyard game in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, but with increased concern over child safety the game has declined in popularity. Mark Twain's book Tom Sawyer, Detective recounts "mumbletypeg" as one of boys' favorite outdoor games.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
pocketknives
Alan J replied:
A knife
mj wrote:
You had to be sharp to do well at this
It's played with a knife, usually a small knife.
Charlie responded:
Pocket knives.
Sally said:
Mumblety-peg (also known as mumbley-peg, mumblepeg, mumble-the-peg, mumbledepeg or mumble-de-peg) is an old outdoor game played by children (BOYS!) using pocket knives!
Most young boys had such a pocket knife years ago. They were used for so many things besides games. Strangely, no one was seriously hurt either. Perhaps we were a gentler society before the rise of violent video games...
PS: Glad you are feeling better MAM. We missed you!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, and back from CA, answered:
Pocket knife
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali Cooler, replied:
My Dad and Uncle Jack used to play it when I was a little kid. They would try to throw knifes at their feet sticking it into the ground as close as they could to their foot. Mom wouldn't let the kids play it. Uncle Jack stuck the knife into his foot twice. Lucky they wore shoes!!
Gratuitous Amanda Righetti
Carolyn G iPadded:
That was played with a jackknife, I watched boys play
it long ago when I was a child.
Lois The Knife (Mack the Knife's second cousin) in Oregon answered:
Kids use pocketknives, but REAL MEN use the HAND STABBER 2000!
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BttbBob said:
Jackknives, o' course... played it as a tad... wasn't the best, but never impaled my foot. I even remember playing it at school during recess. Nowadays, however, any exhibition of it like that would result in mass hysteria and the SWAT team being summoned. My, how times have changed...
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Randall replied:
KNIVES
One throws the knife to cause it to stick into wood. (Table, stump, floor, etc.) - thus, the "peg".
Then the other must pull the knife loose using his teeth. Thus mumble.
(If you slip, your smile can go from ear-to-ear)
At least, that's how I learned how to play it when I was a young'n.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by the FRESH infomercial 'CBS Fall Preview Show', then a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Alec Baldwin and Toni Collette.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Adam Goldberg and Jennifer Carpenter.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Million Second Quiz', followed by a (R) 'Hollywood Game Night'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Hugh Jackman, Aisha Tyler, and OneRepublic.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Robert De Niro, Amy Sedaris, Alt-J, and Peter Hook.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/1/13) are Guillermo Diaz, Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes, and the Stepkids.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by a FRESH'Wipeout', then a FRESH'Rookie Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jake Gyllenhaal, Dianna Agron, and Weekend.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'The X Factor'.
MY has an old 'White Collar', followed by another old 'White Collar'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Panic 9-1-1'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Mummy Returns', 'Owner's Manual', followed by a FRESH'Owner's Manual', then a FRESH'The Pitch'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 7
[9:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 8
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 24 - The Next Phase
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 25 - The Inner Light
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 26 - Time's Arrow - Part 1
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Bonapartes
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Piccolo Teatro
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Lanterna
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 7
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 8
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 6 - The Granary
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Seascape
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 5 - J Willy's
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 7 - The Greek at the Harbor
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 8 - Michon's
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Seascape
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 5 - J Willy's
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 7 - The Greek at the Harbor
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 8 - Michon's
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Bonapartes
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[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Lanterna (ALL TIMES EST)
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Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Billy Crystal.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Philip Mudd.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', 'Anger Management', another 'Anger Management', still another 'Anger Management', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management', followed by the movie 'Machete'.
IFC -
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[2:45PM] Godsend
[5:00PM] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
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[9:45PM] Cloverfield
[11:30PM] Maximum Overdrive
[1:30AM] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
[4:00AM] Maximum Overdrive (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[7:00AM] Animal Kingdom
[9:00AM] The City of Your Final Destination
[11:30AM] Tiny Furniture
[1:15PM] Animal Kingdom
[3:15PM] Wall Street
[5:30PM] Michael Clayton
[8:00PM] King of New York
[10:00PM] Vanishing Point
[12:00AM] Vanishing Point
[2:00AM] Michael Clayton
[4:30AM] How to Be (ALL TIMES EST)
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TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Key & Peele and Wavves.
Susan Bay, left, and Leonard Nimoy arrive to the home entertainment launch party of the worldwide blockbuster "Star Trek Into Darkness" on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013 at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Photo by Casey Rodgers
AMC is calling Saul Goodman for a spinoff of the network's drama series "Breaking Bad."
AMC and Sony Pictures Television on Wednesday confirmed the long-discussed spinoff, which will feature the popular supporting character from "Breaking Bad" in a one-hour prequel tentatively titled "Better Call Saul."
Played by Bob Odenkirk, Goodman is the sleazy New Mexico lawyer whose clients include "Breaking Bad" antiheroes Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, who manufacture crystal meth.
AMC said the new series would focus on Goodman before he crossed paths with those drug czars. The network provided no further details.
Janice and Mitch Winehouse mother and father of the late British singer Amy pose for the media, in front of portraits of their daughter at the Proud gallery in Camden, London, Wednesday, Sept.11, 2013. In the month she would have turned 30, Amy Winehouse is being celebrated in Camden the London neighbourhood that was her physical and spiritual home, she died of accidental alcohol poisoning at her house in July 2011, aged 27. The neighbourhood still attracts her fans, and local officials and businesses are holding a series of September events to raise money for the Amy Winehouse Foundation, a youth charity established by the singer's family.
Photo by Alastair Grant
The most expensive hotel suite in New York city took seven years and $50 million USD to build, features cathedral ceilings, semi-precious stones in the bathroom, a grand piano and stands 800 feet (over 240 m) above the street -- the highest hotel penthouse in the city.
Named after the American business tycoon who created the Beanie Baby empire and who holds a significant share of the luxury hotel chain, one night at the Four Seasons New York Ty Warner Penthouse costs the equal of a lower middle class yearly salary in the US.
For the sum of $45,000 a night, guests of the extravagant hotel suite get panoramic 360-degree views of the pulsing city below them.
In second spot, guests of the Presidential Suite inside the St. Regis pay $35,000 a night for bragging rights to sleeping in the same room as Salvador Dali and Marilyn Monroe.
Scientists have uncovered a portion of an ancient path that may have led to Stonehenge.
While dismantling a modern road that runs near Stonehenge, the archaeologists uncovered two ditches found to be remnants of an ancient pathway called the avenue. Archaeologists have known of the avenue and suspected it led directly to the monument, but the modern road had cut the delicate pathway in two, obscuring its purpose. The new discovery confirms the avenue's role as an ancient pathway to the site.
An exceptionally dry season also revealed the imprints where three stones used to lie in the main stone circle, suggesting the massive stone monument was once a complete circle.
For years, English Heritage had planned to remove the A344 road that snaked through the area and cut quite close to Stonehenge. Though archaeologists suspected the A344 had cut the avenue almost perpendicularly, they weren't optimistic they would find any traces of the earthwork, because the road is now recessed into the ground below the grass level.
The discovery confirms that the avenue, which is about 1 foot (30 centimeters) wide, extended 0.3 miles (0.5 kilometers) straight to the stone monument before snaking onward for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the Avon River in the nearby village of Amesbury.
Actors Tony Shalhoub (L) and Kal Penn (R) from the television show "We Are Men" arrive for a screening of their new show during CBS' observance of "National TV Dinner Day," in Los Angeles, California, September 10, 2013.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Actor Peter Mayhew, who portrayed towering Chewbacca in the "Star Wars" films, has had double knee-replacement surgery at a Texas hospital.
Mayhew was recovering Wednesday at Plaza Medical Center in Fort Worth. Angie Mayhew says her 69-year-old husband had the surgery Monday and hopes to walk again. She says her spouse has been using a wheelchair for two years.
Angie Mayhew says her husband also had a tendon-stretching procedure to stabilize his legs. Peter Mayhew was born with a condition known as gigantism, which causes excessive growth. He's 7 feet 3 inches tall.
The British-born actor's medical issues will be the subject of an upcoming documentary, "Standing in the Stars - The Peter Mayhew Story."
The Mayhews live in Boyd, about 20 miles northwest of Fort Worth.
The music industry's largest record companies are suing SiriusXM Radio for royalties it says the satellite radio company didn't pay for recordings from before 1972.
Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group Recordings Inc. and Warner Music Group Corp., as well as ABKCO Music & Records Inc., an independent company that manages music rights for such acts as the Rolling Stones and The Animals, filed the lawsuit against Sirius XM Radio Inc. on Wednesday. It seeks unspecified damages and a judgment about the rights involved in pre-1972 recordings.
Sound recordings weren't brought under federal copyright protection until 1972, instead being governed through state laws. In recent years, the U.S. Copyright Office has asked for opinions about bringing so-called "oldies" under the law.
The suit is the third major complaint filed against Sirius XM in recent weeks. SoundExchange, a company that collects royalties on behalf of recording artists, filed a similar lawsuit last month in Washington, D.C.
Former hip hop mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has been arrested on an outstanding warrant after being pulled over for a traffic violation in Los Angeles.
Police Officer Sara Faden says the founder of Death Row Records was stopped shortly after midnight Wednesday near Beverly Hills. She declined to say what the alleged traffic violation was.
Officers determined Knight was wanted on a misdemeanour warrant and police took him into custody. Records show he was booked into county jail and released several hours later on $20,000 bail.
A warrant was issued for Knight's arrest in February after he skipped a court appearance for driving without a license.
American actor David Hasselhoff (L) takes part in a trade on the trading floor of BGC Partners in London September 11, 2013. The company, formerly part of Cantor Fitzgerald, holds a Charity Day each year to commemorate the 658 employees who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York.
Photo by Stefan Wermuth
Pranksters who make false emergency calls, drawing police to the homes of celebrities and other targets, will face tougher penalties under a new law signed by California Governor Jerry Brown.
The law, signed late on Monday, takes aim at the expensive and, police say, dangerous hoax known as swatting, when a caller reports that violent intruders have taken over a home, prompting an armed law enforcement response.
In Southern California in recent months, swatters have sent police to the homes of such celebrities as Ashton Kutcher, Tom Cruise, the Kardashians, Chris Brown, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber and Clint Eastwood, according to a fact sheet distributed by state Senator Ted Lieu, who sponsored the law.
The cost of sending out such large teams of first-responders can be as high as $10,000 per call, Lieu said. Under the new law, callers making the false report - or their parents - will be required to reimburse law enforcement agencies for the full amount.
Previously, pranksters could face up to 1 year in jail and a fine up to $1,000, depending on the court's discretion. The new law does not change the potential jail time.
In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 photo, local artist Yan Jhen-fa paints a likeness of Hollywood actor Brad Pitt for a movie poster at his makeshift sidewalk studio for the Chuan Mei Theater in Tainan, Taiwan. The Chuan Mei's main attraction is the colorful 3-meter (9-foot) -square oil-painted advertising posters hung above the theater entrance to illustrate the daily bill of fare. They are the life work of 61-year-old Yan, the last practitioner of this once-popular art form in the country.
Photo by Wally Santana
Southeastern Asset Management Inc., the investment firm that along with activist investor Carl Icahn (R-Avarice Personified) opposed the proposed buyout of Dell Inc., disclosed that it has taken a nearly 12 percent stake in News Corp.
According to the Tuesday Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Southeastern now owns 23.8 million News Corp. Class B shares for an 11.9 percent stake in the company, making it the largest institutional shareholder of the company, according to FactSet.
New York-based News Corp. owns both The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, along with Dow Jones Newswires and a book publishing arm. Last week, it announced a deal to sell off 33 smaller publications, including eight dailies. The publisher split off its movie studio and cable television business, now called 21st Century Fox, in June.
In morning trading, shares of News Corp. added 38 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $17.10 in afternoon trading.
A "tidal wave" violently tossed ships docked along the Delaware River south of Philadelphia at about 11 a.m. ET on Jan. 8, 1817, according to newspapers of the time. Turns out, that tidal wave was actually a tsunami, launched by a powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake that struck at approximately 4:30 a.m. ET near the northern tip of the Bermuda Triangle, a new study finds.
The study links the tsunami to a known Jan. 8, 1817, earthquake. The temblor shook the East Coast from Virginia south to Georgia, where the seismic waves made the State House bell ring several times. Based on archival accounts of the 1817 shaking, geologists had gauged the quake's size at magnitude 4.8 to magnitude 6. Now, with new geologic detective work and computer modeling of the tsunami, researchers have considerably revised the earthquake's size. A magnitude-7.4 quake releases almost 8,000 times more energy than a magnitude-4.8 earthquake.
The size and location, or epicenter, of the 1817 earthquake has never been pinned down so closely before. U.S. Geological Survey research geophysicist Susan Hough and her colleagues zeroed in on the source from newly uncovered archival records, looking at where the shaking was strongest. But they weren't sure about the tsunami link: The 11 a.m. arrival time seemed too late for a 4:30 a.m. earthquake. So they created a computer model of the tsunami, testing different locations and magnitudes. The best fit to force a foot-high (30 centimeters) wave up the mouth of Delaware Bay by about 11 a.m. was a magnitude-7.4 earthquake offshore of South Carolina.
The foot-high tsunami wave started about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) south of Delaware Bay and 400 to 500 miles (650 to 800 km) offshore of South Carolina, according to the study, published in the September/October issue of the journal Seismological Research Letters. That's smack on the northwestern limb of the so-called Bermuda Triangle.
The "T-back" (L) and "Cover-up" buttock-shaped mooncakes sold by Hong Kong lifestyle label Goods of Desire (G.O.D) are shown ahead of the Mid-Autumn festival in Singapore September 10, 2013. The odd-looking mooncakes are a tongue-in-cheek reference to the 15th of the eighth lunar month, which is Cantonese colloquial euphemism for buttocks, according to G.O.D. owner Douglas Young in media reports. Each box retails for S$52 ($41) and consists of four different pieces of mooncakes which depicts human buttocks wearing thongs, a torn pair of trousers and one bare buttock covered by only a hand. Mid-Autumn festival falls on September 19 this year.
Photo by Edgar Su
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